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Spotlight | Cameroon
The securocrats guiding Biya's decisions on Anglophone crisis

President Paul Biya. © NIC BOTHMA/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

As the Cameroonian army struggles to find a way out of the crisis that has gripped the country for the past three year the president continues to rely on a small set of generals and military advisors. [...]

Published on 18.11.2020 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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